Legal Project Management Training Courses

What Kind of Training Would Suit You Best?

I provide on-site training for law firms and other legal service organisations, and run public courses open to individual subscription.

Feedback from my course attendees shows that my courses are informative and enjoyable. Average feedback scores across all course units is 4.5 where 1 = poor and 5 = excellent. I review all feedback and constantly update my courses in light of it.

All my training courses have been verified and accredited by the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM), which means that everyone who completes my courses becomes eligible for IILPM certification in Legal Project Management.

Please continue reading for further information about both on-site and public courses.

“The three days achieved exactly what I was looking for – to pull together various bits of disparate knowledge and thinking, and to reassemble them into something more structured and coherent.”

“If you want to learn about the opportunities and challenges associated with implementing legal project management and legal process improvement, I’d recommend a half day session with Antony as an excellent starting point.”

On-site training is usually bespoke, although I suggest a good starting point for discussion is for you to have a look at my standard 3 day public courses and then consider what topics you would like me to cover.

I stress that this is a starting point. I am flexible concerning course content, delivery and scheduling.

My on-site training can range from short introductory seminars about legal project management through to training lasting several days including workshops and exercises.

I appreciate that different organisations have different training needs and I would welcome the opportunity to discuss these with you.

I also regularly deliver 3 day legal project management training courses which are open to individual subscription.

The purpose of the courses is to show how project management techniques can be best applied in the context of legal service delivery.

After attending all three days of my course you become certified and registered as a Legal Project PractitionerTMwith the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM) provided you meet the LPP prerequisite of having worked in the legal services industry for at least one year. Alternatively, if you are relatively new to the legal services industry you can become a certified Legal Project AssociateTM after attending two days of training.

Course Deliverables

Written notes covering all topics referred to in each course.

IILPM Templates which can be used to execute key tasks found in legal project management.

Practical workshops: my public courses have practical workshops and exercises baked in. Experience shows these really help students better understand key concepts and develop their legal project management skills. I often find that in my public courses particularly, people learn almost as much from each other as they do from me – the course is a great opportunity to network, share experiences and learn about what other people are doing.

I usually recommend that any in-house training should also include workshops and exercises whenever possible and that they be based on real problems facing the legal service delivery team (I can work with you to create workshops and exercises tailored for you).

Alumni slots: I am delighted to say that past graduates of my public courses volunteer to do short ‘alumni slots’ where they return and explain to course participants how they have applied lessons learned during the course while they develop legal project management capability in their law firm or in-house legal department.

Post course follow-up: few things are as frustrating as completing a course full of new ideas and enthusiasm, only to find when you return to work course notes get filed away as the daily demands of job take over again. I am really keen that course graduates get to apply legal project management after training. With this in mind I keep in touch with all course graduates. I also offer course graduates three hours of free consultancy advice (via telephone or skype). I find the people who take up this offer are usually those charged with implementing legal project management in their organisation. Some people continue the consultations, which become chargeable after the three hours.

The IILPM also conducted its own research, including contributions from LPM thought leaders and practitioners in 9 countries (including the U.K) and analysis of recruitment material from law firms seeking new legal project managers and related professionals.

The purpose of all this was to make sure that IILPM accredited trainers, courses and certifications were all properly validated and aligned to meet the real needs of professionals in today’s legal services market.

By adhering to IILPM standards I help develop the competence of legal service professionals through skills based training courses.

Self Assessment Of Your Legal Project Management Skills

The SRA’s competency based regime, which became compulsory for all solicitors from 1st November 2016, requires solicitors to conduct a self-assessment of their skills and then devise a training programme to help improve their skill set.

I thought it might be of interest for solicitors (and others) to have a legal project management skills self-assessment form to hand, including the skills and behaviours referred to in Section D of the Competence Statement.